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TIL If you start a race exactly when the starting gun goes off, it’s considered a false start because it’s impossible for a human to react in under a tenth of second

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78WAO TIL - According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress
l7N1K TIL that chickens are actually native to Southeast Asia and Southwest China; they were brought around the world by trading.
j6wQp TIL that the Missouri River is the longest river in the US, beating the Mississippi by only 1 mile.
VMopm TIL that the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States was guilty of bestiality; Thomas Granger of the Plymouth Colony was hanged for sodomizing "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheepe, two calves, and a turkey."
yQVEe TIL a family's home was burned to the ground on Christmas Eve 1945. The parents and four children escaped unharmed. Five other children of theirs were trapped in upstairs bedrooms and presumably perished, but no remains were ever found and the search for the missing children continued for decades.